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Tier II reporting requirements in Pennsylvania
- Deadline
- 1 March, yearly
- Takes our file
- No
- Own thresholds
- No — federal
- Fee
- $10 a chemical
- Filing route read
- 2026-09-11
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How Pennsylvania takes it
Pennsylvania does not take the federal Tier2 Submit file. You file through PATTS, the state’s own system.
This state does not take the file. Our answer works as the worksheet you type from, with the rule behind every number.
The filing is due 1 March each year and covers the calendar year before it. Pennsylvania covers part of this and not the rest — which recipient is covered depends on where your site is. The state’s own page, linked below, says which; do not assume filing once finished it.
Before you send it — what else Pennsylvania asks for
Pennsylvania charges $10 per chemical reported at or above the threshold — but a service station is exempt from the fee, along with a family farm, government-owned buildings, and publicly owned water or wastewater plants. Filing in PATTS is not quite the whole job. The state says every county emergency planning committee except Berks is signatory with the department, so “a hard copy submission is not necessary for the signatory counties.” But the responding fire department still has to receive its own copy. PATTS will print one for you to send. If your site is in Berks County, print for the committee too. Two more things. A new hazardous material on site starts a 5-business-day clock: file an Initial Report in PATTS, with its safety data sheet and an updated site plan. And your county committee may send its own bill for a Tier II fee, separate from anything PATTS shows.
Does Pennsylvania set its own limits?
Pennsylvania's own agency says it uses the federal thresholds, and we read that page rather than assuming it. We have not gone behind it to the state code, so we say that too.
Pennsylvania keeps the federal thresholds — in its own words, it “adheres to the hazardous substance designations and quantities as established under EPCRA.” The per-chemical fee, and who is exempt from it, is in the section above.
The words we read
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, Tier II / PATTS: “Pennsylvania adheres to the hazardous substance designations and quantities as established under EPCRA.” Authority: Hazardous Material Emergency Planning & Response Act (Act 165 of 1990).
Where we read this
- Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, Tier II / PATTS page, read 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-11. On the counties: the county emergency planning committees are “partners in the PATTS Program” and “accept the online report in PATTS as meeting the filing requirements with them”, so “a hard copy submission is not necessary for the signatory counties”. Berks is the exception — there a facility “must file the Tier II report in PATTS to meet its state-level reporting requirements and also complete an online Tier II report in the Berks County reporting system”. On the fire side, facilities “should send a hard copy of the Tier II report and the attachments to the local responding fire department(s)”, with Philadelphia County the one exception. EPA, “State Tier II Reporting Requirements and Procedures” — Pennsylvania: “Tier2 Submit is not an accepted method for Tier II reporting in Pennsylvania.”Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, EPCRA FAQ (pa.gov/agencies/dli/programs-services/workplace-and-public-safety/epcra-faqs), read 2026-09-11: “PA Act 165 of 1990 charges $10.00 per chemical.” The same page puts the money on the report’s clock — “These annual reports and the related fees are due March 1” — and points at the statute, the Hazardous Material Emergency Planning and Response Act, P.L. 1990-165 §207(c). The fee is charged on chemicals reported at or above threshold, not on ones filed voluntarily below it.Pennsylvania L&I, “Tier II / PATTS System” (pa.gov), read 2026-10-12: “Pennsylvania facilities are required to report the presence of a new hazardous material within 5 business days … facilities must submit an Initial Tier II Report, the accompanying Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for the substance and an updated site plan to the state, as well as to their LEPC and responding local fire department(s)… An Initial Report can be easily filed in PATTS.” and “PATTS does not calculate the LEPC Tier II fee invoice. The LEPC will forward a separate invoice due and payable to them.”Checked 2026-09-11
- Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, Tier II / PATTS: “Pennsylvania adheres to the hazardous substance designations and quantities as established under EPCRA.” Authority: Hazardous Material Emergency Planning & Response Act (Act 165 of 1990).State guidance — the code wins where they differ
- Pennsylvania’s own Tier II pageWe can be right today and the state can change tomorrow. This link does not go stale.
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